Word: tsvangirai
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...government of South Africa, Zimbabwe's neighbor to the south and the nation most directly affected, averts its gaze. But with the runoff presidential election between Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai due on June 27, why aren't the U.S. and other democracies making an attempt either to get Zimbabwe to hold genuinely free elections (admittedly, something that by now may be impossible) or to delegitimize in advance what will certainly be undemocratic results? It may be true, as Madeleine Albright has noted in the New York Times, that the idea of national sovereignty as inviolable has regained luster. Yet what...
...Zimbabwe has plunged into horrendous violence while you have been mediating. With respect, if we continue like this, there will be no country left.' MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, opposition leader, in a recently published letter to Zimbabwe's appointed mediator, South African President Thabo Mbeki, accusing him of favoring strongman Robert Mugabe. Mbeki's spokesman has called the letter a fabrication...
...Zimbabwe Crackdown Tensions are rising as Zimbabwe's June 27 runoff elections approach. On June 4, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained by police, just a day after foreign-aid agencies that help feed thousands of people were shut down for allegedly supporting him--ironically, while President Robert Mugabe was in Rome for a U.N. food-crisis summit...
...couple of weeks ago, most of the Zimbabweans who'd managed to establish themselves here in Africa's richest economy might have scoffed at Tsvangirai's invitation. But amid ongoing violence against immigrants in different parts of the country - and the South African authorities resolved to deploy the military to restore order where necessary - areas such as Alexandra have been rapidly emptied of foreigners. For now, most of the 15,000 people displaced in the attacks have sought refuge in police stations, churches and community centers. (Though thousands more refugees have likely found their way to friends and families living...
...Running his small store in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, had enabled Murimbechi to support three younger siblings back in Zimbabwe, he says. "Maybe I will come back here," he adds desolately. "Or maybe Morgan Tsvangirai will win the election, and maybe the economic situation will improve." About a dozen other Zimbabweans at the bus depot shared similar stories with TIME, while others seeking shelter in the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg - where around 3,000 mainly Zimbabweans are have found a makeshift refuge - said that they would return home if they could afford...